Back in 2022, Microsoft announced the retirement of Basic Authentication as it was moving to modern OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication. The reason was simple, to move away from such simple ...

I'm writing a program that will have to send mail through SMTP. Doing that, I came across a really weid behavior of our exchange 2013 server: If the SMTP session authenticates the session through AUTH ...

Before you delve into the process of creating an SMTP server for your small business, consider whether it requires a dedicated mail server for security, or if you can configure your messages to bounce ...

Microsoft's Exchange team is warning Exchange Online users that many of its customers are being targeted by password spray attacks using its basic authentication. The warning comes as Microsoft begins ...

Configuring an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server on Windows Server is a common task for system administrators who need to enable applications or websites to send email messages. Unlike a ...